QUIZES Flashcards
Which of the following is NOT a way for planners to collaborate with communities affected by environmental injustice
Publishing academic articles on environmental injustice
publishing academic articles does not, on its own, improve the relationship between planners and the communities they serve
what is the first step you should take to lower accessibility barriers at a meeting with elderly/disabled people?
circulate a survey before the meeting asking residents to describe their ideal access accommodations
planners should not assume the accessibility needs of participants.
Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs)
Agreements may not be enforceable if the coalitions who signed them dissolve after signing.
Agreements must be related to one specific development project.
Agreements can be private contracts or contracts enforced by local governments
Agreements can promise local hiring quotas.
charette
an intense, short-term workshop that strives to design a land use planning project or envision a solution to a planning problem. Charrettes are best for uniting multiple stakeholders in close collaboration on a distinct project that people will interact with often, such as a public park or transportation station or system.
Which of the following individuals is an ideal first contact to solicit resident input into community planning?
a neighborhood improvement committee leader (Not a journalist)
What should you do if you are concerned about whether a social media post is a public record according to the Sunshine Laws?
Unclear; consult state and local regulations to determine if social media posts are considered public record.
What is the key component of equity?
Being fair and impartial
Equity is all about improving the distribution of resources, funding, or access in a fair or impartial way and understanding how discrimination has created these inequities.
Gentrification occurs when:
The negative impacts of development are not priced in their entirety
Development occurs in areas inhabited by marginalized groups and approached without an equity lens
potential benefit of form-based codes:
Fostering or protecting a pedestrian-oriented development pattern
Upholding a cohesive design vision
Fostering social equity within cities
(NOT Separating incompatible land uses)
John Snow’s famous map of London’s 1854 cholera outbreak could be interpreted as all of the following except:
Cartogram
LIHTC
The maximum rent that can be charged in a unit funded by LIHTCs is a percentage of an area’s median income.
Unit affordability must be maintained for at least a fifteen-year compliance period.
The majority (90 percent) of affordable housing in the United States was funded by LIHTCs.
LIHTCs provide a dollar-for-dollar tax reduction in a taxpayer’s federal income tax. A tax deduction only provides a reduction in taxable income.
Oversampling
Overrepresenting certain historically underrepresented populations in data collection in the hopes of achieving representative results.
The benefits of a participatory approach include:
Promoting buy-in to the evaluation
Empowering participants as it facilitates building evaluation capacity within the community
Creating space to obtain input from all participants
(Collecting key data around community engagement isn’t a benefit of the approach ITSELF)
Primacy Effect
Primacy effect describes the tendency to choose earlier answers in a list of elaborated options.
In a closed-ended survey question, respondents are more likely to choose earlier options
What best to improves the environmental conditions of underserved communities?
Prioritizing more compact, mixed-use development
fosters more affordable housing and connections with public transportation that help address the spatial distribution of noxious land uses and improve the environmental conditions of poor communities.
A public hearing includes:
A technical presentation, group Q&A, and a formal transcript.
Open-ended questions should:
ask for specific recommendations to specific questions or scenarios.
questions that address two problems, questions that ask for people to describe difficult to communicate values and morals, and questions with unnecessarily complicated phrasings are not appropriate for surveys.
The 3 C’s of public engagement include:
coalition building, consensus building, and conflict resolution
What statistical concept estimates a subset of the city’s population?
Sample
Important social goal of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century?
Provision of funding for projects that will transport welfare recipients to and from jobs
Telecommunications Act
The act ensures that schools, libraries, and hospitals have access to advanced telecommunications services, but churches are not explicitly listed.
The act prevents undue concentration of ownership so that a diversity of viewpoints can flourish.
The act requires that telecommunications carriers interconnect to other telecommunications carriers through local exchange carriers.
While local government cannot prohibit telecommunications services it does have the right to ensure appropriate placement in the community.
Uses with generation rates of greater than 5.
Liquor Store
Restaurant
Grocery Store
Medical Center
This Act identifies potentially responsible parties for environmental contamination.
CERCLA
What is Amortization as it relates to a Nonconforming Use?
A zoning ordinance can legally require that a nonconforming use be terminated within a given period of time, if public gain outweighs private cost. The term “amortization” is used to describe provisions that allow an owner some time during which to recoup their investment in a nonconforming use. None of the other answers pertain to this concept.
Rule of Conduct #3
no advocating for an adverse position within three years
You would like to run for city council in the city where you live. You work as a planner in a neighboring town. Does that raise an ethical issue?
It is OK to run for office, but you should request written permission from the town manager. You should be very careful to recuse yourself from issues that could be perceived as conflicts of interest where you work.
copying other COunty’s plan an ethical violation?
Yes - Rule 25 misrepresenting your professional fitness
Is being assigned to work on a project that could increase your propertyvalue an ethical violation?
No, as long as you let your supervisor know and fully disclosed your ownership interests at all public meetings.
Is serving on another locality’s planning commission an ethical violation?
No, planning commission is not considered employment
Is it ok to develop airbnb regs if you own one yourself?
Yes, if you disclose your property ownership, in writing, to both your supervisor and the Plan Commission.
